The Secret Agent Quiz

Joseph Conrad

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What sort of restaurant does the assistant commissioner eat dinner at on the evening of the Greenwich Park blast? (from Chapter 7)

Spanish.

French.

Greek.

Italian.

2.

Which type of fish does the assistant commissioner eventually tell Private Secretary Toodles he is pursuing in connection with the Greenwich Park bombing case on the evening of that incident? (from Chapter 10)

A dog-fish.

A sardine.

A minnow.

A whale.

3.

What two things did Heat learn several months subsequent to his first encountering Mr. Verloc, when Heat again saw Mr. Verloc and the latter was followed? (from Chapter 6)

Mr. Verloc was Austrian and married to a woman seven years his senior.

Mr. Adolf Verloc's name and that he had gotten married that day.

Mr. Verloc was a secret agent who lived in an affluent neighborhood.

Mr. Verloc was both a spy and an explosives expert.

4.

In chapter 7, what does the assistant commissioner ensure when he returns to his office following his evening meeting with the secretary of state? (from Chapter 7)

That surveillance is placed on the Verloc shop.

That an investigator is assigned to follow Heat.

That Heat has already departed for his home.

That no one can observe the assistant commissioner executing his plan.

5.

In the Silenus, Ossipon pulls out a newspaper clipping he says is ten days old. What is the newspaper clipping about? (from Chapter 13)

The arrest of the French first secretary for espionage and terrorism.

The death of a young man killed in the explosion at Greenwich Park.

The death of a woman who threw herself over the rail of a steamship.

The death of a man stabbed in the parlor of his own home.

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